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"The Pacific Parlour" is a collage and paint-on-glass animated short built around a late-night voicemail and released during the multimedia travelogue, Down For Whatever (2014). Down For Whatever culminated in a limited edition flip-book/essay-book designed and published via onestar press' BOOK MACHINE (Houston), that is now available in the reference section of the William R. Jenkins Architecture & Art Library at the University of Houston.

Made entirely by hand and animated without digital effects, "Greyhound Blues" explores themes of traveling and childhood while drawing from the visual mythology of 1950s roadside America - especially where it overlaps with the American Southwest - and the washed out, photocopied look of early science fiction zines. This impressionistic short combines pen-and-ink and watercolor, paint-on-glass direct animation, and completely abstract experimental animation with stop-motion and animated paper collage featuring hundreds of cut-outs from vintage magazines, encyclopedias, and repair manuals.